Feyzi Baban
@fbaban.bsky.social
Professor of Political Studies and Global Development. Trent University, Canada.
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At least 5 journos arrested for following the protests (obviously the court claims they are crime suspects)
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İmamoğlu eylemlerini takip eden 5 gazeteci hakkında tutuklama kararı
İstanbul’da İmamoğlu için düzenlenen protestoları takip ettikleri için gözaltına alınan gazeteciler Zeynep Kuray, Yasin Akgül, Gökhan Kam, Kurtuluş Arı ve Hayri tunç tutuklandı.
kisadalga.net
March 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
At least 5 journos arrested for following the protests (obviously the court claims they are crime suspects)
kisadalga.net/haber/gundem...
kisadalga.net/haber/gundem...
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This is not to say that I think that Trump will actually abolish voting & install a dictatorship, only that his movement is infused with explicitly antidemocratic & authoritarian ideas. My guess is rather that Trump will take the U.S. in the direction of Hungary & Turkey.
bsky.app/profile/paul...
bsky.app/profile/paul...
I wrote my first Substack piece! In it, I ask if Turkey isn’t a better comparison to a second Trump administration than Nazi Germany. What can the US learn from an already autocratized Turkey? That the Washington Post is a precursor of what may come.
open.substack.com/pub/paultlev...
open.substack.com/pub/paultlev...
January 18, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This is not to say that I think that Trump will actually abolish voting & install a dictatorship, only that his movement is infused with explicitly antidemocratic & authoritarian ideas. My guess is rather that Trump will take the U.S. in the direction of Hungary & Turkey.
bsky.app/profile/paul...
bsky.app/profile/paul...
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Perhaps it's now time for organisations whose core missions include promoting evidence-based inquiry (e.g., universities and their academic units, learned societies, research centres, some think-tanks) to stop using X altogether to platform their work? Asking for (quite) a (lot of) friends.
How Elon Musk’s X became the global right’s supercharged front page
Musk has now used X as a platform to make aggressive interventions in US politics – and in those of other countries
www.theguardian.com
January 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Perhaps it's now time for organisations whose core missions include promoting evidence-based inquiry (e.g., universities and their academic units, learned societies, research centres, some think-tanks) to stop using X altogether to platform their work? Asking for (quite) a (lot of) friends.
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Calling people who correct false information a censorship regime is of course, a great example of Doublespeak. The whole foundation of scientific knowledge is based on the search for truth, and correcting for falsehoods.
www.ft.com/content/bfb4...
www.ft.com/content/bfb4...
Donald Trump’s return sends shivers through the anti-misinformation world
Vow to crack down on the ‘censorship cartel’ has researchers worried — and Big Tech is on notice
www.ft.com
November 26, 2024 at 5:11 AM
Calling people who correct false information a censorship regime is of course, a great example of Doublespeak. The whole foundation of scientific knowledge is based on the search for truth, and correcting for falsehoods.
www.ft.com/content/bfb4...
www.ft.com/content/bfb4...